I had no quarrel with time
but it looks askance
as though saying too long
I have been around
or worse--that something wrong
I have done--
the sentinel eternal
the judge inimical
the party unfaithful
the heart unsentimental
but
I'll not be cowed
to myself I belong
if life is a battlefield
I would be my own general
winter chills in season
unforgivingly
but my heart
shall not be frozen
man shall never
be smaller than fate
there's no glory
in out--living
if with meaning
I have lived
life's chaos and angst
has not diminished me
I have stood up
with dignity
in my nameless humility
and my naked humanity
I am content
and joyful
( despair and regret
set aside)
with what remnant
to me
has been given.
Nov 1, 2019
Nov 1, 2019 at 8:16 PM UTC
I had no quarrel with time
but it looks askance
as though saying too long
I have been around
or worse--that something wrong
I have done--
the sentinel eternal
the judge inimical
the party unfaithful
the heart unsentimental
but
I'll not be cowed
to myself I belong
if life is a battlefield
I would be my own general
winter chills in season
unforgivingly
but my heart
shall not be frozen
man shall never
be smaller than fate
there's no glory
in out--living
if with meaning
I have lived
life's chaos and angst
has not diminished me
I have stood up
with dignity
in my nameless humility
and my naked humanity
I am content
and joyful
( despair and regret
set aside)
with what remnant
to me
has been given.